Where does “petaparsec” come from?
petaparsec (English) comes from English Peta, from English Peter, from Middle English Peter, from Latin Petrus, from Indonesian penembak, from Indonesian tembak, from Malay tembak, from Malay timbak.
petaparsec (English): An astronomical unit of distance equal to 1015 parsecs
Definitions
- An astronomical unit of distance equal to 1015 parsecs
Ancestry of “petaparsec”, step by step
petaparsec traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English Peta
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Peta | — |
| 2 | English | Peter | radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter P |
| 3 | Middle English | Peter | Peter |
| 4 | Latin | Petrus | Peter |
| 5 | Indonesian | penembak | shooter |
| 6 | Indonesian | tembak | to shoot to fire a shot |
| 7 | Malay | tembak | to shoot |
| 8 | Malay | timbak | Obsolete form of tembak |
| 9 | Proto-Malayic | timbak | — |
| 10 | Proto-Malayo-Polynesian | ti(m)bak | — |
via English parsec
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | parsec | parallax second |
| 2 | English | parallax second | A unit of length, used in astronomy, defined as... |